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1824 - The presidential election between John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Crawford and Henry Clay was turned over to the House of Representatives due to the lack of an electoral college vote majority. (Adams was eventually chosen as the winner by the House.)
1862 - President Abraham Lincoln sent his Second Annual Message to Congress, which was read aloud by the Secretary of the Senate. In it, Lincoln called for the abolition of slavery, saying that "in giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free."
1887 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes appeared for the first time in print in the story "A Study in Scarlet".
1913 - The first drive-in automobile service station opened in Pittsburgh.
1934 - Sergei M. Kirov, head of the Communist Party in Leningrad was assassinated as Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a massive purge that would claim tens of millions of lives.
1941 - Japan’s Emperor Hirohito approved waging war against the United States, Britain and the Netherlands after his government rejected U.S. demands contained in the Hull Note.
1942 - During World War II, nationwide gasoline rationing went into effect in the United States; the goal was not so much to save on gas, but to conserve rubber (as in tires) that was desperately needed for the war effort.
1955 - Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her front-section bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
1959 - Twelve nations, including the United States, signed a treaty setting aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve free from military activity.
1963 - The Beatles' first single, "I Want to Hold Your Hand", was released in the United States.
1965 - An airlift of refugees from Cuba to the United States began in which thousands of Cubans were allowed to leave their homeland.
1969 - The U.S. government held its first draft lottery since World War II.
1974 - TWA Flight 514, a Washington-bound Boeing 727, crashed in Virginia after being diverted from National Airport to Dulles International Airport; all 92 people on board were killed. Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, a Boeing 727, crashed near Stony Point, New York, with the loss of its three crew members (the plane had been chartered to pick up the Baltimore Colts football team in Buffalo, New York).
1990 - British and French workers digging the Channel Tunnel between their countries finally met after knocking out a passage in a service tunnel.
1991 - Ukrainians voted overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 - "Long Island Lolita" Amy Fisher was sentenced to prison for shooting and seriously wounding Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of her lover, Joey Buttafuoco. (Fisher served seven years.)
1997 - Representatives from more than 150 countries gathered a global warming summit in Kyoto, Japan over the course of ten days forged an agreement to control the emission of greenhouse gases. President George W. Bush pulled the U.S. out of the Kyoto Protocol in 2001.
2000 - Vicente Fox was sworn in as president of Mexico, ending 71 years of ruling-party domination.
2004 - Tom Brokaw signed off for the last time as anchor of the "NBC Nightly News".
2009 - President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 more U.S. troops into the war in Afghanistan but promised to begin withdrawal in 18 months.
2014 - President Barack Obama, after meeting with mayors, civil rights leaders and law enforcement officials at the White House, asked federal agencies for concrete recommendations to ensure the U.S. wasn’t building a “militarized culture” within police departments.
2018 - Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took the oath of office as Mexico’s first leftist president in more than 70 years.
Birthdays
27 - Javier Baez (baseball player)
29 - Chanel Iman (model)
31 - Zoe Kravitz (actress)
31 - Tyler Joseph (singer)
31 - Ashley Monique Clark (actress)
33 - DeSean Jackson (football player)
34 - Janelle Monae (actress/singer)
34 - Ilfenesh Hadera (actress)
35 - Charles Michael Davis (actor)
37 - Riz Ahmed (actor)
42 - Nate Torrence (actor)
44 - Sarah Masen (singer)
44 - David Hornsby (actor)
47 - Ron Melendez (actor)
49 - Sarah Silverman (actress/comedian)
49 - Golden Brooks (actress)
52 - Nestor Carbonell (actor)
53 - Katherine LaNasa (actress)
58 - Jeremy Northam (actor)
59 - Carol Alt (actress/model)
61 - Charlene Tilton (actress)
63 - Kim Richey (country singer)
68 - Treat Williams (actor)
74 - Bette Midler (actress/singer)
80 - Lee Trevino (golfer)
84 - Woody Allen (actor/director)
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Today in Sports History - December 1
1924 - The Boston Bruins and the Montreal Maroons played the first NHL game to be played in the United States. The game was played at Boston Arena.
1928 - National League President John Heydler first to propose a baseball rule change calling for a 10th man, or 'designated hitter', to bat in place of the pitcher; ironically, the NL vote in favour of proposal, but the American League turn it down.
1936 - Larry Kelley of Yale wins the Heisman Trophy.
1951 - Princeton running back Dick Kazmaier wins the Heisman Trophy.
1954 - The New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles complete largest trade in MLB history as 17 players, including Don Larsen, Gene Woodling, Bob Turley change teams; first phase of transaction began November 18 and concludes today after the MLB draft.
1959 - LSU running back Billy Cannon wins the Heisman Trophy.
1962 - Classifications in minor league baseball are overhauled; the Eastern and South Atlantic Leagues are promoted from Class AA to AAA; and Classes B, C and D are abolished with those leagues being promoted to Class A.
1964 - The Houston Colt .45s changed their name to the Houston Astros.
1967 - Seattle was awarded an American League franchise, the Pilots.
1967 - Wilt Chamberlain set an NBA record when he missed 22 free throw attempts in a game.
1980 - South Carolina running back George Rogers wins the Heisman Trophy.
1981 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar passes Oscar Robertson to move into second place on the NBA's all-time scoring list with 26,710 points.
1984 - Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie won the Heisman Trophy.
1988 - NBC bids a record $401 million for the broadcast rights to the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain.
1991 - Dan Marino of the Miami Dolphins sets an NFL record with his eighth 3,000-yard passing season.
1996 - Wayne Gretzky becomes the first and only player in NHL history to reach the 3,000-point plateau.
1997 - Golden State Warriors guard Latrell Sprewell assaults head coach P.J. Carlesimo; Sprewell is suspended for 10 games.
2003 - Bidding began on the baseball that was deflected by a fan in the stands during a Chicago Cubs game. The ball was sold on December 18, 2003, for $106,600 at auction. The foul ball appeared to be headed for the glove of left fielder Moises Alou in Game 6 of the National League Championship series. The Florida Marlins ended up winning the game 8-3. The Cubs then lost Game 7.
2015 - In the largest deal ever for a MLB pitcher, Boston Red Sox land one of the biggest catches of the off-season, signing free agent David Price for 7 years and $217 million
2015 - After finishing the season with the largest payroll in MLB history at $298.3 million, the Los Angeles Dodgers are assigned the largest luxury tax bill ever, $43.7 million
1824 - The presidential election between John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Crawford and Henry Clay was turned over to the House of Representatives due to the lack of an electoral college vote majority. (Adams was eventually chosen as the winner by the House.)
1862 - President Abraham Lincoln sent his Second Annual Message to Congress, which was read aloud by the Secretary of the Senate. In it, Lincoln called for the abolition of slavery, saying that "in giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free."
1887 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes appeared for the first time in print in the story "A Study in Scarlet".
1913 - The first drive-in automobile service station opened in Pittsburgh.
1934 - Sergei M. Kirov, head of the Communist Party in Leningrad was assassinated as Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a massive purge that would claim tens of millions of lives.
1941 - Japan’s Emperor Hirohito approved waging war against the United States, Britain and the Netherlands after his government rejected U.S. demands contained in the Hull Note.
1942 - During World War II, nationwide gasoline rationing went into effect in the United States; the goal was not so much to save on gas, but to conserve rubber (as in tires) that was desperately needed for the war effort.
1955 - Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her front-section bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
1959 - Twelve nations, including the United States, signed a treaty setting aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve free from military activity.
1963 - The Beatles' first single, "I Want to Hold Your Hand", was released in the United States.
1965 - An airlift of refugees from Cuba to the United States began in which thousands of Cubans were allowed to leave their homeland.
1969 - The U.S. government held its first draft lottery since World War II.
1974 - TWA Flight 514, a Washington-bound Boeing 727, crashed in Virginia after being diverted from National Airport to Dulles International Airport; all 92 people on board were killed. Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, a Boeing 727, crashed near Stony Point, New York, with the loss of its three crew members (the plane had been chartered to pick up the Baltimore Colts football team in Buffalo, New York).
1990 - British and French workers digging the Channel Tunnel between their countries finally met after knocking out a passage in a service tunnel.
1991 - Ukrainians voted overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 - "Long Island Lolita" Amy Fisher was sentenced to prison for shooting and seriously wounding Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of her lover, Joey Buttafuoco. (Fisher served seven years.)
1997 - Representatives from more than 150 countries gathered a global warming summit in Kyoto, Japan over the course of ten days forged an agreement to control the emission of greenhouse gases. President George W. Bush pulled the U.S. out of the Kyoto Protocol in 2001.
2000 - Vicente Fox was sworn in as president of Mexico, ending 71 years of ruling-party domination.
2004 - Tom Brokaw signed off for the last time as anchor of the "NBC Nightly News".
2009 - President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 more U.S. troops into the war in Afghanistan but promised to begin withdrawal in 18 months.
2014 - President Barack Obama, after meeting with mayors, civil rights leaders and law enforcement officials at the White House, asked federal agencies for concrete recommendations to ensure the U.S. wasn’t building a “militarized culture” within police departments.
2018 - Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took the oath of office as Mexico’s first leftist president in more than 70 years.
Birthdays
27 - Javier Baez (baseball player)
29 - Chanel Iman (model)
31 - Zoe Kravitz (actress)
31 - Tyler Joseph (singer)
31 - Ashley Monique Clark (actress)
33 - DeSean Jackson (football player)
34 - Janelle Monae (actress/singer)
34 - Ilfenesh Hadera (actress)
35 - Charles Michael Davis (actor)
37 - Riz Ahmed (actor)
42 - Nate Torrence (actor)
44 - Sarah Masen (singer)
44 - David Hornsby (actor)
47 - Ron Melendez (actor)
49 - Sarah Silverman (actress/comedian)
49 - Golden Brooks (actress)
52 - Nestor Carbonell (actor)
53 - Katherine LaNasa (actress)
58 - Jeremy Northam (actor)
59 - Carol Alt (actress/model)
61 - Charlene Tilton (actress)
63 - Kim Richey (country singer)
68 - Treat Williams (actor)
74 - Bette Midler (actress/singer)
80 - Lee Trevino (golfer)
84 - Woody Allen (actor/director)
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Today in Sports History - December 1
1924 - The Boston Bruins and the Montreal Maroons played the first NHL game to be played in the United States. The game was played at Boston Arena.
1928 - National League President John Heydler first to propose a baseball rule change calling for a 10th man, or 'designated hitter', to bat in place of the pitcher; ironically, the NL vote in favour of proposal, but the American League turn it down.
1936 - Larry Kelley of Yale wins the Heisman Trophy.
1951 - Princeton running back Dick Kazmaier wins the Heisman Trophy.
1954 - The New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles complete largest trade in MLB history as 17 players, including Don Larsen, Gene Woodling, Bob Turley change teams; first phase of transaction began November 18 and concludes today after the MLB draft.
1959 - LSU running back Billy Cannon wins the Heisman Trophy.
1962 - Classifications in minor league baseball are overhauled; the Eastern and South Atlantic Leagues are promoted from Class AA to AAA; and Classes B, C and D are abolished with those leagues being promoted to Class A.
1964 - The Houston Colt .45s changed their name to the Houston Astros.
1967 - Seattle was awarded an American League franchise, the Pilots.
1967 - Wilt Chamberlain set an NBA record when he missed 22 free throw attempts in a game.
1980 - South Carolina running back George Rogers wins the Heisman Trophy.
1981 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar passes Oscar Robertson to move into second place on the NBA's all-time scoring list with 26,710 points.
1984 - Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie won the Heisman Trophy.
1988 - NBC bids a record $401 million for the broadcast rights to the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain.
1991 - Dan Marino of the Miami Dolphins sets an NFL record with his eighth 3,000-yard passing season.
1996 - Wayne Gretzky becomes the first and only player in NHL history to reach the 3,000-point plateau.
1997 - Golden State Warriors guard Latrell Sprewell assaults head coach P.J. Carlesimo; Sprewell is suspended for 10 games.
2003 - Bidding began on the baseball that was deflected by a fan in the stands during a Chicago Cubs game. The ball was sold on December 18, 2003, for $106,600 at auction. The foul ball appeared to be headed for the glove of left fielder Moises Alou in Game 6 of the National League Championship series. The Florida Marlins ended up winning the game 8-3. The Cubs then lost Game 7.
2015 - In the largest deal ever for a MLB pitcher, Boston Red Sox land one of the biggest catches of the off-season, signing free agent David Price for 7 years and $217 million
2015 - After finishing the season with the largest payroll in MLB history at $298.3 million, the Los Angeles Dodgers are assigned the largest luxury tax bill ever, $43.7 million